| 30-31.12.1942: |
"Operation Regenbogen":
Together with CA Admiral Hipper
, Panzerschiff Lützow
and five other destroyers, the Z31
attacks the British convoy JW 51B escorts east of Bear Island. The squadron disengaged after Admiral Hipper
is damaged by British cruisers Jamaica
and Sheffield
and DD Friedrich Eckoldt
is sunk. |
| March - April 1943: |
Part of the battlegroup stationed in the Altafjord. The battlegroups consist of Tirpitz
, Scharnhorst
, Lützow
, Z28
, Z31
, Paul Jakobi
, Karl Galster
, Erich Steinbrink
, Theodor Riedel
and the torpedo boats T20
and T21
. |
| 06-07.09.1943: |
Tirpitz
, Scharnhorst
and the destroyers Z29
, Z31
, Z33
, Z27
, Z30
, Erich Steinbrink, Karl Galster
, Hans Lody
and Theodor Riedel
attack an allied base on Spitzbergen. |
| 28.01.1945: |
Heavily damaged during a battle with british cruisers in Norwegian waters. Repaired at Horten. |
| 07.03.1945: |
Together with the destroyers Paul Jakobi,
Z38
and the torpedo boat T36
, the Z31
covers the shore bombardment of the Panzerschiff Admiral Scheer
at Wollin. |
| 21.03.1945: |
Together with Z34
, the Z31
covers the shore bombardment of the Panzerschiff Lützow
and CA Prinz Eugen
near Danzig. |
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